Recent content by Mild Fire

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I would have never planted so early so far north. I have insanely overgrown tomatoes that I haven't put in the ground because even with the warm daytime temps, we're still dropping close to freezing at night. I've still had some frosts hit after normal planting times in the past. I wouldn't...

That's truly messed up. Sounds like the low-life soon-to-be-ex my stepbrother married. His dad, my stepdad, just passed away last week, and the first words out of her mouth after getting the news were, "What did he leave you?" You reap what you sow in life. If nobody is there to help when...

What kind of bread are you making that uses dairy? None of my bread recipes include dairy. The binding in bread is due to the gluten from the flour. Yeast, water, flour and a little oil and salt are all you need for good bread, and the variations are all about how much yeast, whether you use...

On a Mac, preview is the best thing for making avatar size versions of photos. I use photoshop to create some avatars when I want to be fancy, but open and resave the final version in preview because it makes the file size a bit smaller than photoshop does when saving a jpeg.

That was what I was asking. The square brackets are bb code, not HTML, so once I know that, I can manually enter tags. Anyway, as you can see from my quote above, I got the multiquote to work for single quotes, so I'm doing that instead of manually typing the code, which is a pain on the iPad...

I'm starting to think I should use habs for training radiation workers. They won't contaminate anything if they learn with something generally harmless but that will burn badly if they screw up. Better than using dyes or baby powder.

That really sucks! But, try try try to stay calm to talk to your neighbors. You're mor likely to get resolution if you keep your cool than if you go over screaming and shouting. If they hired someone, get the information about who and call them to report the damage from overspray. But, there...

Doesn't look like a jalapeno to me. What else were they growing? Looks like it's crossed with something else, like a banana pepper or poblano. Don't expect jalapeno, but maybe it'll be an interesting hybrid.

Looks like it, but hard to be sure without size context.

Before going too crazy on organic methods, this blog is worth a read. It's very well-reasoned and factually based (and if you read it fully, you'll also see it's quite balanced and fair about the positives and negatives of both organic and conventional farming)...

We have a newish Thai place here, and it's fantastic! No choices on the heat, they just make it like it's supposed to be...the way Thai restaurants used to serve food before wimps took over the world. On a related note, one of the Indian restaurants here has one of those 10 point hotness...

Precisely. If they know you don't consider your plants organic and want to lie about it, they'll lie to you too som day. Though, the reality is that anyone can slap an "organic" label on anything and get a premium price for it, which is why I totally ignore it and buy whatever tastes better...

I always wondered if people counting points were any better at estimating that than those counting calories. I've seen plenty of people on weight watchers still drastically overeating, but with a new method of rationalizing the amount consuming, while driving everyone around them nuts. I've...

Nom nom nom nom! Several of my friends make venison jerky, and one coworker also makes venison sausage. I only object to the jerky one makes because he uses the tenderloins for it! *sobs a little* i have students who hunt too, and every year as hunting season begins, I remind the class that...